ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,134, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing connector-integrated resin tube" was invented by Kazuhiro Saiki (Aichi, Japan), Koji Mizutani (Aichi, Japan) and Yorihiro Takimoto (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a connector-integrated resin tube includes: a fitting step in which an end portion of a resin tube material including a straight tube portion is fitted into an end portion of a connector of a tubular shape; a joining step in which the end portion of the resin tube material and the end portion of the connector that have been fitted a...